Sheet Pan Waffles — gluten-free, vegan, dairy-free, egg-free, healthy, and totally delicious!
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Regular sheet pan waffles, without cherries. The little cubes of waffle in the picture at the top of the page contain cherries, cardamom, and are piled with fruit. So I thought you might want to see what unadorned sheet pan waffles look like.
This recipe started out as a recipe from a long-gone blog called “Living Healthy With Chocolate” for Chocolate Paleo Waffles — which are amazing! I converted that recipe into my recipe for Chocolate Chip waffles — which also are amazing! But my waffle iron is finicky, and making waffles one at a time is slow, so I made that into sheet pan waffles, which are delicious and much easier! At that point I am not sure that they are still waffles anymore, since they aren’t waffle shaped, and I think waffle shapedness is a basic essential of what makes a waffle a waffle. But these have all of the yummy goodness of chocolate chip waffles and they are much faster and easier — so I vote that this is a win all around!
In addition to being delicious, these are also healthy enough to eat for breakfast. Or cut them into bars and serve them as a dessert — especially the variation with cherries and cardamom.
Highly recommended!!
I brought some samples of the chocolate chip cherry cardamom variation to a get-together of the Gluten-Free Ann Arbor group, and people seemed enthusiastic!
Sheet Pan Waffles
Ingredients
- 2 cups almond flour
- 1 cup tapioca starch - also called tapioca flour
- 2/3 cup gluten-free flour - you can choose a flour mix, or quinoa flour, or garbanzo flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder - or 1 1/3 teaspoons of baking soda plus 1 1/3 teaspoons cream of tartar. If you don't have a 1/3 teaspoon measuring spoon (I don't), it's fine to estimate the amount. A 1-teaspoon overfilled until it is gently rounded is about 1 1/3 teaspoons.
- almost 1/2 cup applesauce - Tip: This is the exact amount of applesauce in a pre-packaged 4-ounce cup of applesauce.
- 1 cup water
- 2/3 cup mild tasting oil such as canola oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon either apple cider vinegar or lemon juice
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips - I like bittersweet Equal Exchange chocolate chips in this
- 1-2 cups fresh cherries, cut in half and with pits removed - optional!
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom - optional - recommended together with the optional cherries
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
- Get out an 11x15 inch cookie sheet with sides, or another baking pan that is about that size. If it's not nonstick, add parchment paper.
- Put all of the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix well. A big whisk works well for this. Check for any pockets of unmixed ingredients and mix them in.
- Pour the batter onto the cookie sheet, and spread it out evenly.
- Bake for 22 minutes.
- When it is done, the waffle squares should be starting to look golden brown on top. I like to test with a food thermometer; the temperature in the middle should be about 180 to 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Cut into 16 rectangles and serve! I like to let them cool a little and then cut them into little bite-sized cubes. These are good with maple syrup, though instead of syrup I like to pile my waffles with colorful pieces of cut-up fresh fruit. And berries. Freckly bananas are good here, and cut-up mango, chunks of plum or other stonefruit, blueberries, other berries -- lots of types of fruit are great here! This is so very good!In addition to breakfast or brunch, the waffle cubes make a nice snack. They also taste great cold from the refrigerator!
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